Target Audience: Year 5-6 (Stage 3) Subject Area: Personal Development, Health and Personal Education Strand: Personal Health Choices Substrands:
Decision Making
Nutrition
Active Lifestyle
Outcome:PHS3.12 Explains the consequences of personal lifestyle choices. Indicators:
Describes the factors that influence personal health choices, eg family, friends, religion, culture, environment
Values the importance of physical fitness to personal health
Appreciates the need to participate in physical activity
Devises strategies to achieve personal active lifestyle goals
Applies decision making process when choosing recreational pursuit
Board of Studies
Considerations Making decisions 15 minutes
Teacher should be providing guidance and assistance to each group through encouragement
Hold small group discussions about decisions
Make a list of the decisions each group member has made today about food and about involvement in activity
Class discussion about results
30 minutes
Using these three points as a guide students are to create a poster to inform peers about good decision making
What is the decision making process?
What are some of the influences on decision making?
How can we support others in decision making?
Nutrition 15 minutes
Students will watch video "Extreme obesity affecting more children at younger ages"
Students research to create their own definition of
a) Physical wellbeing
b) Emotional wellbeing
c) Mental wellbeing
d) Spiritual wellbeing
e) Social wellbeing
Resources
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Internet
Class Discussion 10 minutes
What does it mean to be healthy?
Discuss the concept of balance between the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual and social wellbeing
Summarise the main discussion points by creating a class definition of health
Dietary Guidelines for Children 20 minutes
Students read through the dietary guidelines for children (two pages)
Create a pamphlet to promote the guidelines in groups of four
Active Lifestyle Class discussion 10 minutesWhat is an active lifestyle?Why is it important to have an active lifestyle?What are some active lifestyle activities you would enjoy?
Group work10 minutesUsing the headings: immediate/longterm, physical, social, emotional and mental;
Brainstorm the effects physical activity has on the body
As a class10 minutes
Create a final report, highlighting the effects that physical activity has on the body
Group work15 minutesDevise an advertisement for television, radio or print to influence the consumer to participate in new active lifestyle activity
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Target Audience: Year 5-6 (Stage 3)
Subject Area: Personal Development, Health and Personal Education
Strand: Personal Health Choices
Substrands:
Outcome: PHS3.12 Explains the consequences of personal lifestyle choices.
Indicators:
Board of Studies
Considerations
Making decisions
15 minutes
Teacher should be providing guidance and assistance to each group through encouragement
30 minutes
Using these three points as a guide students are to create a poster to inform peers about good decision making
- What is the decision making process?
- What are some of the influences on decision making?
How can we support others in decision making?Nutrition
15 minutes
- Students will watch video "Extreme obesity affecting more children at younger ages"
- Students research to create their own definition of
- a) Physical wellbeing
- b) Emotional wellbeing
- c) Mental wellbeing
- d) Spiritual wellbeing
- e) Social wellbeing
ResourcesClass Discussion
10 minutes
Dietary Guidelines for Children
20 minutes
Active Lifestyle
Class discussion 10 minutesWhat is an active lifestyle?Why is it important to have an active lifestyle?What are some active lifestyle activities you would enjoy?
Group work10 minutesUsing the headings: immediate/longterm, physical, social, emotional and mental;
As a class10 minutes
Create a final report, highlighting the effects that physical activity has on the body
Group work15 minutesDevise an advertisement for television, radio or print to influence the consumer to participate in new active lifestyle activity